Extreme Full Moon
March 30th, 2011Putted out of Golfito Sat.night (March 19) with no Panama Zarpe and one goal in mind. That goal is to hit the Burica Seamount 47 miles out at dawn and look for some love. If it’s not there, we’re a long way from nowhere. The structure is a prehistoric dead(I hope) volcano raising to 540′ from a surrounding 500 to 700 fathom bottom. The structure lies 4 miles west of Panama’s Isla Burica. Eyes strain at first light blindly wishing the water is blue, the current is running, and yellowfin’s are showing(about a 40% shot). I’ve taken some of our biggest Marlin at this locale on the moon including Inta’s 400 lbs. class blue on standup with Marlin legend Capt. Tom Lynskey on the wire and cousin Tommy’s huge Blue this January. As we move in it’s immediate apparent life is present. A huge tree loaded with bait is miraculously drifting right off the volcano and we deploy the live bait rigs and score an immediate double on yellowfin. The prerigged 20/0 circle bridles accept the tuna and we set up a 4 knot live bait power drift. After about 20 minutes…..CRASH….We found the Love…….
Thank God for driftwood…unless of course you’re running from a storm 😉 Thanks for the great fish stories. Can’t wait for the next adventure a la Thumper!
Capt. Harry, thanks for giving us the chance to ” live the dream”. You don’t get the shots that we had aboard Thumper on Wide world of Sports, Spanish Fly, In Fisherman, or any of the other fishing shows on TV that I have watched and wished I was part of. Extreme Full Moon and Golfito, Costa Rica are forever implanted in my memory. AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME… YOU are THE MAN. Your gracious friend forever, Toddy. Thanks to Beto and Ronnie, special fisherman.
More great stories and pictures. Good luck with your next round.
The last few updates remind me of an old saying,”The harder I work, the luckier I get.” Congratulations on the GRAND SLAM and all the recent successes. Beautiful pictures of PARADISE, and a couple of nice Triple-tails.
I seem to remember Harry wanting to show the boys from MD that the PA boys on E dock could get it done…I guess some things never change. ALL THE BEST!!!